Cooling system and control method

1. A cooling system, comprising:

a fan group comprising a plurality of fans arranged in a row;

a rail extending in a direction parallel to the row of the fans;

a backup fan slidably mounted to the rail;

a motor configured to control the movement of the backup fan; and

a control board to determine whether there exists at least one malfunction fan in the fan group;

wherein when at least one fan in the fan group is abnormal, the control board outputs a control signal to the motor, to enable the motor to drive the backup fan to move to a location corresponding to the abnormal fan.

2. The cooling system of claim 1 , further comprising a baseboard management system (BMC), wherein the BMC assigns numbers to each of the fans in the fan group, the BMC outputs a pulse signal to the backup fan, to enable the backup fan to operate.

3. The cooling system of claim 2 , wherein the control board comprises a micro control unit and a storage module, the storage module stores location corresponding to the number of each fan in the fan group, the micro control unit comprises:

an obtaining unit configured to obtain status information and the number of each fan in the fan group;

a determining unit configured to determine whether there exists at least one abnormal fan in the fan group, and output a determining signal in response to there being at least one abnormal fan; and

a control unit configured to receive the determining signal, and obtain the location corresponding to the abnormal fan according to the determining signal from the storage module, output the control signal to the motor to drive the backup fan to move to the location corresponding to the abnormal fan, and output a startup signal to the BMC, to enable the BMC to control the backup fan to operate.

4. The cooling system of claim 3 , wherein the determine signal comprises the number of the abnormal fan.

5. The cooling system of claim 3 , wherein the determining signal comprises a speed of each fan.

6. The cooling system of claim 5 , wherein the fan is abnormal in response to the speed of the fan being “0”.

7. A control method for a plurality of fans in a fan group and a backup fan, wherein the backup fan is slidably mounted to a rail by a motor, the control method comprising:

obtaining status information and a number of each fan in the fan group;

determining whether there exists at least one malfunction fan in the fan group according to the status information;

outputting a determining signal in response to the existence of at least one abnormal fan;

obtaining a location corresponding to the abnormal fan according to the determining signal;

outputting a control signal to the motor to drive the backup fan to move to the location of the abnormal fan; and

outputting a startup signal to a baseboard management system (BMC), to control the backup fan to operate.

8. The control method of claim 7 , wherein the status information comprises a speed of each fan.

9. The control method of claim 8 , wherein the step “determining whether there exists at least one abnormal fan according to the status information” further comprises:

determining whether the speed of the fan is “0”,

determining the fan is abnormal in response to the speed of the fan being “0”.

10. The control method of claim 7 , wherein the step “obtaining a location corresponding to the abnormal fan according to the determining signal” further comprises:

storing location corresponding to the number of each fan in the fan group; and

obtaining the location according to the number of the abnormal fan.